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Subject: Re: The Ghost of Christmas Past

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 04:52:18 03/23/02

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On March 22, 2002 at 18:32:56, James T. Walker wrote:

>CSTal II hits about 30-35K/nps on my AMD 1.4G machine.  On a K6-3-450 it usually
>hit around 10K.  Who knows when the hardware gets this thing up to about 1M/nps
>it may be the strongest thing around. :=)  Don't throw it away yet.

I see absolutely no reason to assume it will play better compared to
other programs when the hardware gets faster.

In fact, people have said the exact same thing as you 2-3 years ago,
and I only see CSTal getting worse compared to new programs, not better.

--
GCP



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